Because they have so many ideas in their head, their mouth can barely keep up with their brain, so they tend to speak quickly. It just means when they speak they do so with a sense of clarity others the same age lack. It can sometimes mean a larger use of vocabulary but not always. There is a certain way many gifted students speak that is not representative of their age. It just means they have difficulty connecting with children their own age. It does not mean they are socially awkward although it can come across as that. This may result in students hanging out with the teacher during class or conversing with the lunch duty aide instead of eating with classmates. This makes it a challenge to find someone who is on the same level as themselves so many times the child turns to adults because they can have a conversation with them. This is because they are put into classes based on age. Often times because of their intellectual abilities, gifted students have difficulty finding peer-mates. Desire to talk to teachers and adults more than students

Sarcasm is a good indicator of being gifted as sarcasm is very abstract while most young children think in a very concrete manner. While a classmate might find humor in a poop joke, a gifted student may find a pun funny that other children do not understand. It means they have a more sophisticated sense of what is funny. This does not mean they like humor with foul language. They have more of an adult sense of humor. They will find things funny that classmates will not, and not find things funny their classmates do. Gifted students often have a sense of humor many years beyond their tender age. This is the sort of student who takes something apart just to see what it is like inside or who wants to explore something further when it seems to everyone else the correct answer has been given. Sometimes it comes off as though the child is questioning the authority of the teacher, but this child is just questioning everything. Why is that the way it is? How does that work? What would happen if something different occurred? These are the sorts of questions a gifted student would ask. It means being intellectually curious about things. What are some of these characteristics? Intellectual curiosityīeing gifted means more than simply being smart. Gifted students have certain characteristics, certain quirks that cause their giftedness to be revealed without needing the test to indicate this. But any teacher who has been in gifted education for a number of years can usually spot these gifted students using only the eyeball test. There are some states and districts that use checklists or local norms such as grades and parent recommendations in order to identify students as gifted. There are subject specific tests such as the Stanford. There are cognitive tests such as the OLSAT and Terra Nova. There are many tests that can be given to identify a student as gifted.